I want to know if the following architechture is possible and if so, what is the best way to implement it? :
A dedicated server running a linux gentoo distribution on top of which I want to install a ...

I have a server running Gentoo and hosting a drupal installation.
Whenever a Drupal update is executed, the directory permissions of the updated module turn from 755 to 744 preventing the application ...

I recently made the move to The Cloud from a bare metal server for personal use and I couldn't be happier. Except for one thing: My server crashes about once a week.
Rackspace has been really great ...

I have elasticsearch installed and working in /opt/elasticsearch. I want to install a service wrapper for it to start/stop/restart it as a service. Elasticsearch recommends using java-service-wrapper:
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This may seem like an innocent enough question, but I can't for the life of me figure out where gentoo puts mongodb.conf after installation from portage. The documentation says to look under /etc/, ...

I am currently looking into Ruby/Ruby on Rails as an alternative to Python/Django. My main problem is that it is rather unclear what the best practices are when it comes to installing Ruby gems and/or ...

I have a node.js script I want to daemonize on a Funtoo system (I tagged as Gentoo, since I don't think there's anything really specific to Funtoo in here vs Gentoo), and I do this with the following ...

I am trying to get RabbitMQ working with SSL on a couple of Gentoo servers. I get the following error in /var/log/rabbitmq/rabbit@...log when I try to connect to the management console using https:
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I have a variety of Linux hosts on my office LAN. I run apt-cacher-ng on a box to cache packagae downloads for all of the Debian and Ubuntu machines on the network. We have a few Gentoo users and I ...

I am getting an error trying to visit my Django app. I am running Gentoo and the web server is Apache with the mod_wsgi module to display Django. The error says
OperationalError at /admin/
could not ...

I created a new instance of a Gentoo AMI (Gentoo_64-bit-EBS-2012-03-02-07-39-15 (ami-6ab26f03)).
Both Status Checks passed (both system and instance reachability passed).
I know the Key Pair Name is ...

I've installed Nginx for optimizing the speed of Apache requests. For some weeks everything was fine, all my sites had started to fly indeed. BUT, I've decided to install passenger, and has broken my ...

I have a perl website that I am trying to set up on my local LinuxMint install. All the configuration files are in the mercurial repository, however the layout for the Apache2 configuration in Gentoo ...

We're quite fond of the style of the ebegin, eend, eerror, eindent etc commands used by Portage and other tools on Gentoo. The green-yellow-red bullets and standard layout make for very quick spotting ...

I'm in the process of converting an existing mail server to support encrypted SMTP for our clients, but I've run into this brick wall with very little useful log data to help me forward. Everything ...

I have Memcached configured and setup to with work with vBulletin 4.1.5 on a Gentoo Linux 32-bit Linode VPS. Memcached is started, includes/config.php is configured to use the memcache, and the site ...

I have Gentoo installed as guest OS. I have hardware clock synced with host system, but the clock of OS tend to be wrong after suspend.
The only solution I find out is run hwclock -s frequently via ...

I use LAMP and add to it virtual host ololo.loc!
when I use links http://ololo.loc it works and i can see file from /var/www/ololo.loc/
when I use localhost in links it works too and i can see file ...

Recently my gentoo server began dropping all network connections. Since it's a headless server hidden in a closet I don't have any other means of logging on, so I'm unable to get in when this happens. ...

I currently have a dedicated server running Gentoo Linux with only an SSH access and I was wondering if it's possible to create and setup a virtual machine from command line using VirtualBox ? (Like ...

PHP on Gentoo supports the threads USE flag. As far as I know, PHP does not support true threading; I am only aware of the ability to fork using pcntl_fork(), but this functionality is provided by the ...